Marcelo Jeneci

Nova Música Paulista (literally "new Paulista music") is a contemporary wave from São Paulo that renews MPB’s songwriter tradition by blending it with samba’s rhythmic DNA, indie/alternative rock timbres, jazz harmonies, and Afro‑Brazilian percussion and spirituality.

New MPB (Nova Música Popular Brasileira in English usage) is a 2010s–2020s wave that refreshes classic MPB’s songwriting craft with indie, R&B, hip‑hop, and electronic production. It keeps the genre’s hallmark: sophisticated harmony, intimate vocals, and poetry‑forward lyrics in Portuguese.

Nova MPB ("new Música Popular Brasileira") is a contemporary wave of Brazilian popular music that renews the classic MPB ethos with indie, electronic, neo‑soul, and modern pop production. Artists in this scene preserve the melodic richness, poetic lyricism, and rhythmic DNA of bossa nova and samba…

MPB (Música Popular Brasileira) is a broad Brazilian popular music movement that crystallized in the mid-1960s after bossa nova. It blends samba and other regional rhythms with jazz harmony, singer‑songwriter craft, and elements of contemporary pop and rock.